Can music support interfaces to complex databases?

Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 78-84

  Rigas, D I ^a   Alty, J L ^b   Long, F W ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Databases; Multimedia; Music; PCTE OMS; User Interfaces

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIDDEN INFORMATION; HIDING INFORMATIONS; MULTIMEDIA; MUSIC; PCTE OMS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER MUSIC;

GRAPHICAL BROWSING DISPLAYS; OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (OMS); PORTABLE COMMON TOOL ENVIRONMENT (PCTE);

EID: 0030675421     PISSN: 10896503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EURMIC.1997.617221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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